Greg Wilson is a Merseyside-based DJ who played a pivotal role in the development of UK club culture in the early eighties via his tenure at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s Legend, and also The Haçienda during its formative period, with his upfront selection of NYC electro-funk grooves.  In 1983 he was the first DJ to mix live on UK TV.

Taking a two-decade hiatus, during which time he produced the seminal ‘UK Electro’ compilation, plus acclaimed albums for UK hip hop pioneers the Ruthless Rap Assassins, he returned to DJing in 2003, connecting with a younger audience and taking his place at the forefront of the disco/re-edits movement, subsequently spreading his reach across the globe.

His three ‘Credit To The Edit’ compilations did much to cement his reputation as did his now classic 2009 Radio One Essential Mix, one of 10 classics selected by the BBC to celebrate the first 500 mixes in the show’s history, and listed in 2015 by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 25 greatest internet mixes of all-time, the same year in which he was presented with the DJ Mag’s Industry Icon Award.

He is also a writer/commentator on dance music and popular culture, his Electrofunkroots archive and Being A DJ blogs becoming online touchstones whilst his 2020 book Discotheque Archives received widespread kudos, with a hardback edition published in 2023.

Greg began DJing in 1975 and is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene. He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s majorly influential Legend, having originally started out in his hometown, New Brighton. A pioneer of mixing in the UK, he became the first ‘dance music’ specialist hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester’s now legendary Haçienda club in 1983. Greg was instrumental in breaking the new electronic, post-disco records coming out of New York, a sound he has dubbed ‘electro-funk’. In 2003 he set up electrofunkroots, a website documenting this crucial era in the evolution of dance culture. Following a twenty year break, he returned to DJing and soon welcomed bookings throughout Europe and, subsequently, worldwide.